And nothing was easier than to mention the quantity.

"They think so much of us.

They think in particular so much of you." "Ah, don't put it all on 'me'!" she smiled.
But he was putting it now where she had admirably prepared the place.
"It's a matter of your known character." "Ah, thank you for 'known'!" she still smiled.
"It's a matter of your wonderful cleverness and wonderful charm.

It's a matter of what those things have done for you in the world--I mean in THIS world and this place.

You're a Personage for them--and Personages do go and come." "Oh no, my dear; there you're quite wrong." And she laughed now in the happier light they had diffused.